I don’t fucking bother with people who think the problem can’t be solved.
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I don’t fucking bother with people who think the problem can’t be solved.
I’m not saying they aren’t fucking dumb.
unironic use of the phrase "purity test" is the best way to signal to everyone that you're a selfish amoral piece of shit who would eagerly sacrifice any marginalized community you aren't part of in order to preserve your own comfort
We don’t need the bad guys to not be bad guys. We need them to be fucking terrified of the good guys. Pants-shitting horrified to even consider getting in our way.
There is not nearly enough personal violence in politics anymore. Sometimes good behavior comes because the bad guys know they’ll get jumped in a parking garage.
Maybe if we took the National Restaurant Association out back and beat the shit out of them they’d get the message. Several broken arms should do it.
Either the Rwandan genocide and the Gaza genocide are both genocides or neither are. But if a genocide in response to a literal civil war is a genocide, then Israel’s response to a single terrorist attack cannot possibly be anything other than genocide.
Muriel Bowser’s loyalty is clearly for sale. Why don’t we put a GoFundMe together so we can make her an offer so she’ll start caring about the People of DC instead of just the rich people who donate to her.
That they function equally-well as an indictment of how neurotypicals treat autists just serves to reinforce my point that people actually do understand autism; they keep writing autists into scripts without even realizing that’s what they’re doing. So, yeah. Droids. Victims of discrimination. Ope.
I’ve always read the droids as being the obviously discriminated-against subordinate class of equal intelligences. They’re an allegory. To things like the Upstairs/Downstairs life in the UK, or slavery, or any of a host of examples from history. How do people not get this? Star Wars isn’t subtle.
Check out that massive bruise across the bridge of his nose. Probably fell on a stair and busted it up. Or Stephen Miller kicked his ass.
Burn it to the fucking ground. University of Spoiled Children needs to be the University of Smoking Crater.
In addition to the corporations trying to destroy the NLRB and 90 years of labor law, don’t forget a university is also helping, just to fight their own faculty and students.
Which was in 1792. The Bill of Rights was introduced in Congress and sent to the States on September 25, 1789. But it wasn’t actually ratified until January 1792.
Really get into it. Make her deny being bought. Make her loudly disclaim the idea that her loyalty is for sale. Hammer her with this obvious conclusion: that she will do whatever she is paid to do. Hang it around her neck like a millstone.
Start a public campaign to raise money to pay Muriel Bowser to care more about the People than her other donors.
So where’s the GoFundMe to make a competitive counteroffer for buying her out?
This morning (9/1) at 8 AM feds pulled over a couple at 18th & Park NW. They smashed the window, dragged the husband out & arrested him. When a community member stopped to record they were grabbed & threatened w/ pepper spray by this piece of shit. @mayorbowser.bsky.social do you welcome this too?
Tony fucking Blair. Him and Bill fucking Clinton. Jesus Christ almighty.
One of the most populous countries in the world, at 280 million people.
Protesters in Indonesia set fire to parliament after cops kill taxi driver Working-class people are fighting back across Indonesia against the cost of living, politicians' perks, and police brutality www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
Gigantic bruise on the bridge of his nose. Mottled skin there. He fell on a staircase, probably. It’s one way you get that kind of injury from a fall. Not the only way. But the most likely. He’s far too vain to appear in public like that.
The DeSantis administration currently has at least seven Florida Highway Patrol troopers just on anti-chalk duty: Two watching from a Dunkin Donuts next door and five more parked in the lot right behind them.
The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
If you’ve ever worried whether art matters. It does.
Keir Starmer just appointed Tim Allan, a board member of the anti trans hate group, Sex Matters, to be his new communications director.
No one will remember Garland’s name. But they’ll remember Biden like we remember James Buchanan: not at all, and when they do, they barely remember that Buchanan’s total failure led directly to the Civil War & the dissolution of the Whig Party to boot. Also initials JB. Only other Prez born in PA.
Bizarrely the same thing is happening in the UK. It’s like they’re trying to kill us. Malthus certainly thought it was the solution to the world’s problems. Typical rich person thing to believe: “we’re rich toffs and if only the poor were all dead the world would be better.”
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Happy Labor Day, comrades 🫡
They still haven't released the Epstein documents.
That anyone is willing to say trans kids shouldn't be allowed to play sports with their friends in their public schools should alarm even the most radical centrist that Democrats care so little about public education when public education is under constant incredible fascist attack on all fronts
It’s so obvious what they should be doing. That they aren’t speaks volumes.
It’s Joe Biden’s fault. It cannot be Garland’s fault but not the fault of the guy who hired him and didn’t replace him for cause. Instead Biden defenders point to some “principle” they made up out of whole cloth. A centrist purity test. The buck stops with the President. Not his AG. Him. Coward.
Texas is awful.
"officers were still investigating and had not arrested anybody" We have 15 law enforcement officers show up for every traffic stop in DC right now, but when a lunatic shoots and murders a 5th grader having harmless fun in Texas, we're "still investigating"
Today’s press pool photo shows Trump leaving the White House this morning. I enhanced the image. And seriously, can an expert explain what the hell is happening to his forehead? Right above his nose and right brow.
If the enhancement is accurate, it looks like a fall from the line across the bridge of the nose. Possible he busted up his nose there because that was one of the points of contact with a stair. Someone so vain wouldn’t want to be seen like that. Not that the DC/NYC media would follow it up ever.
There's a reason that the people who complain that Bluesky isn't welcoming never explicitly say WHO isn't being welcomed. Who should we be nicer too? Be specific about the kind of people you want here. I'd've quote posted this. But he turned replies and quotes off. Making me feel very unwelcome.
The French colonized England in 1066 and didn’t stop colonizing until extremely late in the 20th century. If at all.
People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.
Pope Leo XIV met with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church. The Rev. James Martin said Leo told him that he intended to continue Pope Francis’ policy of LGBTQ+ acceptance in the church and encouraged him to keep up his advocacy.
At Rice University in Houston. Texas. I’d trust Rice on anything to do with reproduction or human health of any kind just as soon as I’d trust Sauron with the One Ring. That’s the problem of conservatism co-opting institutions: you can’t trust them at all for any reason.
The Tories/Reform captured Labour in the same way the Republicans did here with the Dems.
“Unobtainable” just means you’re giving up. Either it’s obtainable or the species goes extinct. Maybe we should be trying to stop it idk. Setting bogus “not enough” targets hasn’t worked in 40 years. Why keep trying the same failed tactic? It’s the species. Actual war would be justified.
Genocide in response to a single terrorist attack can’t be justified if genocide in response to a civil war can’t. Israel loves to try to claim their genocide of the Palestinian people is allowable as a response to a single attack. But that argument would justify the Rwandan genocide. So.
Never forget that the Rwandan genocide, where the Hutu murdered over a million Tutsi. They did so as the direct result of the Tutsi carrying out a literal civil war against the Hutu. Even in response to a civil war, genocide is not valid. Genocide is always wrong. Even in response to a literal war.
![Genocide justification is the claim that a genocide is morally excusable/defensible, necessary, and/or sanctioned by law.[1] Genocide justification differs from genocide denial, which is an attempt to reject the occurrence of genocide. Perpetrators often claim that genocide victims presented a serious threat, justifying their actions by stating it was legitimate self-defense of a nation or state. According to modern international criminal law, there can be no excuse for genocide.[2][3] Genocide is often camouflaged as military activity against combatants, and the distinction between denial and justification is often blurred.[4]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j76trmiofvaxxpvx2vnb2vwf/bafkreia4twc2qbwkmn3ozstknikbeo5xx56elnzdkycdjkzfkwehmvk4jq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Almost every leader in America is a total coward. They have no idea what leadership looks like. It’s pathetic.
Good to see a bipartisan group of former CDC Directors raise alarms in the NY Times about RFK Jr. dismantling US public health. And I can’t help but feel frustrated that they didn’t do this last year when public health was on the ballot—nor did NYT frame it that way—when we had a chance to stop it.
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
He’s a racist, virtue signaling to his racist friends.
Why not just put the information out there now? Why wait until September 3? They’re giving them a chance to figure out how to stop it. Poor strategy.
Profiles in Cowardice. I fully intend to advocate for these cowards to get punished severely for not being squarely on Team Not-Trump. “Judicial independence” only helps Trump, so it’s not actually independence is it? It’s criminal levels of judicial bias dressed up in fake virtue.
Profiles in Cowardice.
Okay so in a normal court proceeding, if the judge literally thinks one of the parties is intentionally not going to follow her orders, the attorneys would get in some trouble. Sometimes big trouble. But a federal judge is playing supervisor to the US Government instead of holding them in contempt.
Why isn’t he in jail for contempt?!
I’m appalled at the judge. No defendant would ever get a sweetheart deal like this.
No defendant would ever get this kind of gift from a judge. What she should have done is the very first time she thought they weren’t going to follow her orders she should have held the attorneys involved in direct contempt and jailed them. Right then. She’s giving an undeserved gift to them.
the judge is now basically checking every couple of hours to make sure her directions are being followed to the letter because she is dealing with lying liars who lie astounding how much credibility the government has burned with the courts
“Net Zero” is a dodge. A fake. It has to be “Net Negative, including natural sources.” It’s remarkable that even at this late date the messaging is still so bad.
Net zero isn’t enough. It has to be net negative. CO2 has to be departing the atmosphere at a greater rate than it is being put in. And we do not control the methane releases so our reduction has to *include* accounting for the natural release of methane from previously-frozen permafrost layers.
Literally the equivalent of writing a strongly worded letter. Introducing acts in Congress that they know will never go anywhere is a cynical ploy by cynical politicians. It’s a fake. Do not trust the DC Dems here. They reveal their bigotry on trans matters constantly. And their cynicism too.
Because the DC Democrats agree with the Republicans on this. They won’t message the obvious and correct political strategy response, which as Nora shows here is radically different than what they’re doing. The DC Dems are incompetent, yes. They aren’t even trying here because they hate trans folks.
why can't the democrat messaging on trans people be "no, we are not going to force children to undergo genital inspections in order to play sports"
I like the idea that they were eulogizing him to his face because they knew he was about to undergo surgery or had a terminal disease or something.
The last time Donald Trump showed his face live in front of the press was Tuesday, August 26th, during a marathon three-hour cabinet meeting. Maybe all that staged roundtable praise from his sycophants was too much for him.
Sort of darkly hilarious that all these years the right was claiming Soros was paying people to be shills for the not-right and so BTC was like “don’t mind if I do!” If he tried to discredit his own movement on purpose I cannot think of a better way. He and Chorus are saboteurs.
He’s probably part of the Chorus of idiots.
I mean I knew that before you replied. I think you haven’t considered what I actually wrote. I fully understand where you’re coming from. My disagreement with you isn’t borne out of ignorance, as you clearly believe based on your response in context I fully understand you. I just disagree.
It’s a little weird to demand people vote for a candidate as a necessary lesser evil three years before you even know if they’re going to be the candidate
the haters and losers will say it's foolish to indulge in wild speculation but you can't deny it's extremely funny that they have to write headlines like this
Tax rate on the rich at 95% and I’m in.
My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
you really couldn't make many movies from 40-50 years ago today. this is due to the unavailability of certain discontinued film stocks and the deaths of many principal actors, directors, and other various crew members
I see and I hear and I speak no evil; I carry no malice within my breast; yet quite without wishing a man to the Devil one may be permitted to hope for the best. -“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein
A policy the Republicans did kill in 1876 in exchange for the Presidency for Hayes.
Democrats should be promising out loud that they’ll burn the painting the next day they’re in charge. Won’t even wait the night. Just an immediate order “burn the painting of Lee in a bonfire celebration of the US Army’s great victory over him.”
Businessmen Republicans kicked the socialists (the “Radical Republicans” who ended slavery) out of their party and sold out the South to the confederates in 1876 in exchange for the Presidency for Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, of the awful state of Ohio. The two parties aren’t much different.
3/ general. In the decades that followed basically no general staffs studied Lee's battles and strategies. On the contrary for the next half century and longer general staff's around the world studied Grant and Sherman and to a lesser extent other generals under their command.
Collaborators gonna collaborate. Also they’ll get what collaborators always get, after this is all over.
Looks like the Providence police are collaborators. Okay. We know what happens to collaborators and their families too.
The Providence police union slammed an oversight panel’s report that found officers violated both city ordinance & police policy by helping ICE arrest a Honduran national, asserting the findings are “nothing more than a disgusting display of anti-police rhetoric.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/29/m...
when you grow up and realize it's actually the rich who work less, get “handouts”, and “leech off the government.”
I’ve been saying this literally for years. Their bad COVID response in America is purely because many American leaders are eugenicists. Those who aren’t seek to think, as Malthus infamously did, that the solution to the world’s problems is massive depopulation. Evil bedfellows.
One thing Sensible Centrists refuse to acknowledge - and this was true during covid when people were also saying this stuff explicitly - is these people are eugnenicists who welcome a good plague to get rid of the old, botched, and bungled
Oh hey you’re an abuser too. Go abuse someone else, abuser. Try not to make it your kids.
Confirming you’re an asshole, thanks. Also an idiot. Probably neurotypical but accusing someone of that is beyond the pale even for me.
I’ve heard from a couple of messaging strategists now that people shouldn’t post so much about COVID19 vaccines because it’s “divisive”. I am here to say that I do not give a damn what is popular. I will never ignore scientific evidence for the sake of expediency, and neither should anyone else.
The Rev took attendance…
The most insulting part of the whole Chorus thing is how boring it is. Like, that kind of base corruption is child’s level corruption. Middle school cliques have more sophisticated requirements for shills than the Chorus people. Just so boring. Yawn. Wake me when these political children grow up.
They act like guilty people with power act. Exactly like that. That’s because they’re guilty of being paid shills. Paid shills are as old as politics. I’m honestly bored at how pedestrian the corruption is. Millions of examples from history. They couldn’t even innovate? Come on. Skill issue there.
I have also been terminally online for my entire adult life following politics. And you’re fucking crazy if you think that Chorus is even the only one of these. Them closing ranks and attacking a woman for telling on them is absolutely confirmation evidence of their guilt. Also I’m a lawyer. So.
Carter, who in 1980 on his way out of office pardoned a serial child molester because they were a famous folk musician. That guy’s band, Peter, Paul, and Mary later put out a childrens’ album called “Peter, Paul, and Mommy.” www.insidehook.com/music/peter-...